The business market consists of four broad segments: producers, resellers, government, and regions.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
Marketing Chapter 8
- Mercedes-Benz: Daimler AG, the maker of Mercedes-Benz automobiles, is planning to launch a new line of downsized luxury vehicles in the United States by 2012. Daimler has experienced a recent drop in global sales attributed to its product mix that focuses on larger luxury automobiles.
- Wrestling Merchandise: Market research has shown that 6- to 17-year-old males, 18- to 24-year-old females, and 18- to 44-year-old males are most likely to watch a televised professional wrestling event or attend a live match.
- Turkey Hunting Equipment: Around the beginning of fall each year, about 2.7 million turkey hunters all over the United States start looking at catalogs for the perfect item to guarantee that this year they will kill a wild turkey, the most elusive game bird in North America.
- To be successful, most businesses focus on customer service. However, the cable industry has a history of poor customer service. Cable companies are facing competition for television customers who once had no choice but cable if they wanted to see more than local programs. In the face of this competition from direct broadcast satellites, cable companies are trying to use a ___ strategy to show that they have become customer oriented.
- The Southern Company is the largest provider of utilities in the southeastern United States. It has also been accused of being the biggest source of industrial air pollution in the area. Southern is trying to change consumers' perceptions of the company by sponsoring a series of television programs on how to preserve our environment. The Southern Company is hoping the programming will lead to:
- Changing consumers' perceptions of a brand in relation to competing brands is known as:
- The advertisements for Kay Jewelers usually show a man presenting a woman with a ring or necklace and receiving a kiss in return. The ad then shows the slogan "Every Kiss Begins with Kay." This is an example of ___ positioning.
- Ad campaigns for Aleve pain reliever emphasize the fact that to get the same relief offered by one Aleve, you would need to take six aspirin of Tylenol and four Advil. These promotions are using the positioning base of:
- In 2012, Apple, introduced iCloud, a cloud storage service that stores users data and media on remote computer servers so that they can be accessed on multiple devices and updated from anywhere. Apple is catering to on-the- go consumers who use multiple platforms. This positioning strategy is based on the:
- All of the following are typical bases for positioning EXCEPT:
- A(n) ___ could help determine whether or not snacking consumers consider Kashi Tasty Little Crackers healthy and tasty in comparison to other brands.
- Which of the following is a means of displaying or graphing, in two or more dimensions, the location of products, brands, or groups of products in customers' minds?
- When the Sara Lee Bakery Group introduced Iron Kids Crustless bread (to save mothers the time and effort of slicing the crusts off sandwiches), it was using:
- For years, fryer chickens sold in grocery stores were perceived to be a rather generic product--one brand of chicken was much like another. Then Frank Perdue began an advertising campaign to tell consumers that his brand of chicken was more tender, therefore a better choice. Perdue brought ___ to the marketing of fryer chickens.
- Products such as bleaches, aspirin, unleaded regular gasoline, and some soaps are distinguished by differences such as brand names, packaging, color, smell, or "secret" additives. With these products, marketers attempt to convince customers that their product is significantly different from the others and should therefore be demanded over competing brands. These marketers are using:
- There are a number of devices that parents can buy to prevent their children from hearing objectionable language while they watch television. ProtecTV is the only product of its kind that has an expandable dictionary. Parents can add words and phrases they find offensive, and the additional words will be deleted from soundtracks and captioning. ProtecTV uses a(n) ___ strategy.
- Elaine perceives Cadillac automobiles to be for older men, not for young professional women such as herself. Elaine's perception represents Cadillac's ___ in her mind.
- The place a product, brand, or group of products occupies in consumers' minds relative to competing offerings is referred to as a product's:
- Chandler Kumar owns two antique stores. One is in an upscale neighborhood, and its merchandise is artfully arranged and priced to indicate product rarity. The other is in a run-down strip mall and contains some of the same type of merchandise, but the items are left in open boxes and placed haphazardly on shelves. Customers of either store have entirely different perceptions of the stores and would be surprised to know Kumar operates each of them because he uses such differing ___ strategies.
- ___ is the development of a specific marketing mix to influence potential customers' overall perception of a brand, product line, or organization in general and is related to the place a product occupies in consumers' minds relative to competing offerings.
- Product positioning is the process of:
- The Ritz-Carlton hotel chain is renowned for its service and individual treatment of its customers. All service staff and employees have note pads and are taught to record every little piece of information they learn about a customer. If a business traveler ordered soft pillows, only wanted martinis in his mini bar, and needed access to a fax machine, he would find all of these amenities in his room when he arrived. The Ritz-Carlton is basing its CRM on which of the following trends?
- All of the following have been identified as trends that will lead to the continuing growth of CRM EXCEPT:
- All of the following are true about CRM except:
- Lands' End offers customers the option using special software to accurately gauge what size customers are in Lands' End clothes using a web cam image, and the ability to store size preferences. This is an example of which trend contributing to CRM?